本稿では, 産業化における木材利用の一端を解明するために, 製紙業におけるパルプ用材の調達方法を考察した。自然資源のひとつである木材は, 生産を人為的にコントロールできない。そのため木材需要が拡大する状況下で, 製紙各社は年期契約の締結や山林買収などパルプ用材所要量の確保のための継続した対応策をこうじたが, 長期的な所要量確保は困難で, 製紙業にとってパルプ用材所要量の確保は重要な制約条件であった。
This study examines the purchasing methods of pulp material in the paper-making industry to elucidate a part of how timber was used in industrialization. 
Wood, as a natural resource, cannot have its production artificially controlled. 
Therefore, under circumstances of expansion in timber demand, although each paper company built continuous strategies to secure necessary volumes of pulp material, such as establishing annual contracts, acquiring forests, and so on, long-term procurement of necessary volumes was difficult; or for paper companies, securing necessary volumes of pulp material was an important constraint condition.

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